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Oscar Niemeyer - Inspired by Nature

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Oscar Niemeyer, Brasilia’s famous architect and co-creator of the city Brasilia, is well known for his creations made of concrete. In the case of Brasilia I find it personally a bit too much of his design in one place, a bit too much concrete, but nonetheless one can see clearly that Niemeyer was inspired by nature when creating his abstract formed buildings.

He wrote in his memoirs:

“I am not attracted to straight angles or to the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. I am attracted to free-flowing, sensual curves. The curves that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean, and on the body of the beloved woman. Curves make up the entire Universe, the curved Universe of Einstein.”

One could say he created concrete art inspired by nature and concrete was an ideal medium to mold pieces of modern architecture.

For those of us who love photographing architecture, his work is a great subject and also a challenging one, making good examples for photography courses. How to photograph this modern architecture? What is the right angle to capture the spirit of it and not to distort the design? Probably by capturing the spirit of nature he put into it, focusing of dynamic parts of the buildings and one would actually capture the essence of his work.

Well, architecture
photographers, take on the challenge and be inspired by a great man.


Ute Sonnenberg for
www.rohoyachui.com

Image via Co.Design article on Oscar Niemeyer, read
here.

Design Duo Steve Jobs and Philippe Starck: The Yacht

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What happens when great creative minds like Steve Jobs and Philippe Starck are collaborating? A product of a different kind comes out and in this case Steve Jobs’s private yacht.

Yesterday on 28
th October 2012 the yacht was unveiled at the Dutch shipyard Koninklijke De Vries in Aalsmeer. A masterpiece of minimalistic design and 70 – 80 meters of craftsmanship with the name Venus.

Read the complete article on
Mashable and watch the video on the Dutch site OneMoreThing.

It will be interesting to learn what technology was built into the yacht and what new products might come out of it for all of us. The Apple TV?

Enjoy the piece of art!


Ute Sonnenberg for
www.rohoyachui.com